The Johnson County Camera Club is a non-profit organization based in Prairie Village, Kansas. Members shoot both digitally and slides.

Meetings are the second Monday of each month, September through June.

Come share your photographic interests with other photographers. Learn through club programs and informative sessions. Take part in our intra-club competitions. Show and discuss your photography. Grow through helpful critiques and evaluations. Make new acquaintances who share the same interest and pleasure in photography.

Membership is open to all levels of experience. Whether you are a novice, advanced amateur, or professional photographer, your interest and talents are always welcome.

The Johnson County Camera Club extends to you an invitation to attend one of our monthly meetings!

Friday, October 5, 2012

The Aperture | October 8, 2012


The Aperture
Newsletter of the Johnson County Camera Club

Established April 1963
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Meeting:  October 8, 2012 (second Monday)
Time:       6:30 P.M. (chat time), 7:00 P.M. meeting
Location: Asbury United Methodist Church
     Music Room
     75th St. and Nall Avenue, Prairie Village, Kansas

(Park behind the church;  meeting entrance is near the corner on the back of the building near Nall.)

Meeting Agenda

Jim Griggs will be our guest speaker.  Here is some information from Jim on his background in photography. 

For eleven years I worked as a teaching assistant to world renowned writer/photographer Boyd Norton. How much this influenced my photography is hard to describe but somewhere around 99% or a few percent MORE! Since then I have been doing workshops and some lectures on photography. I also was an assistant to Jim Richardson of National Geographic during his assignment to photograph the Flint Hills, an opportunity I jumped on with both feet. Besides a tremendous learning experience, this was also a chance to change my viewpoint on digital photography.

For those that know me, you already realize that everything I do is FUN! If it isn't fun don't do it. Serious to me is something you put milk on in the morning for breakfast. Relax, chill out a little, kick back and just have some fun and excitement with photography. Besides spending loads of time in front of my Macs, I try to spend an equal amount of time behind the lens! I like the influence other photographers have on me but I don't like to copy their stuff. I like twisting the tail on the dragon and doing my own stuff in some unique way. AND, most importantly, I love teaching what I know about photography! I have been around this so long that it is second nature to me in some respects but still a learning experience. Get out of that chair! Go shoot! Limit yourself to one lens for a each week. See what IT will do and always, always have fun doing it.

Photography has taken me from the realm of looking at the world to actually seeing the world. There is a DIFFERENCE!

"You can leave Africa but Africa NEVER leaves YOU!" - Jim Griggs

Dues

With the beginning of a new photo club year comes the need to pay your dues.  Our Treasurer, Michael Stone, will gladly take your money at the meeting.  Please pay by check in the amount of $25, payable to the Johnson County Camera Club.  If you have moved since last year please let Michael know so he can revise his list.  If you have changed your email address since last year please inform our newsletter editor, Bill Staudenmaier, so you can continue to receive the newsletter.  For less hassle, mail your dues to:

Michael Stone
12319 West 107th Terrace
Overland Park, KS  66210


Notes from Our Last Meeting

-President Steve Wall presided over the meeting. 
-Steve went over the budget for the club year and talked about the programs for the year.
-Do to car problems Scott Bean couldn’t make the meeting: his program will be rescheduled.
-Bruce Hogle filled in with a program entitled “Prairie Fire” showcasing the work of several photographers, illustrating the beauty of fire and need for range burning in the Flint Hills.
-Following some additional club business the meeting was adjourned.

At The Galleries – Michael Stone  (Photography currently on display)
Art At The Center, Tomahawk Ridge Community Center, 11902 Lowell, Overland Park, KS (913-344-8656). Hours: Monday thru Saturday 8am-9pm, and Sunday 10am-8pm.

            "The Photographs Exhibition" The City of Overland Park's annual juried photography only exhibition offers a broad range of subject interest, techniques, and creative talent. This large exhibit features the work of 22 local photographers. Including images by JoCoCC members Marla Craven, Wayne Hickox, Mark Higgins, Dale Jamieson, Julie Johnson, Ernie Lowden, Crystal Nederman, Curtis Olinger, Dick O'Kell. Dave Shackleford, Brian Schoenfish, Shari Stanberry and Steven Wall  -  Closes  November 11.

            Note: Artists reception will be held Friday, October 5, 5:30 - 7:30pm. Public is invited.

The General Store & Co., 7922 Santa Fe Drive (Old Downtown), Overland Park, KS.
Hours: Monday thru Friday 10am to 6pm, and Saturday 9am-5pm.

            "The Space Between" Pilar Law presents a unique collection of deliberately un-focused abstracted views of her surroundings and their known features. Reality becomes ethereal shapes and lines and splashes of color among soft light and shadow. Sometimes suggesting a sense of motion  -  Closes October 30.

Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, 2004 Baltimore, KCMO (816-221-2626).
Hours: Tuesday thru Saturday 11am-5pm.

            "Journey In The Land" Arkansas photographer Michael Schultz's massive color prints are unusual, often compressed, dreamlike landscapes that revel in Earth's mysteries and power, its wonder and enchantment, and our relationship with it  -  Closes October 27.

Revocup Coffee, 11030 Quivira (behind McDonalds), Overland Park, KS (913-663-3695).
Hours: Monday thru Friday 6:30am-7pm, Saturday 7am-5pm, and Sunday 8am-5pm.

            "Photography by Ernie Lowden" JoCoCC member Ernie Lowden's 17 photographs offer the viewer a wide range of subject matter and pictorial genre, from traditional landscapes and nature, to subjective abstraction  -  Closes (eventually).

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - Block Building, 4525 Oak, KCMO (816-561-4000).
Hours: Wednesday 10am-4pm, Thursday and Friday 10am-9pm, Saturday 10am-5pm, and Sunday noon-5pm.

            "The Future of Yesterday" Displayed in the Block Lobby (both levels) are 15 dramatic photographs by Belgian artist Ives Maes. Maes explores the architecture of former world's fair sites and records how they appear today. He investigates the effect of time, place, and context on the remains of these once grand global events  -  Closes October 28.

            "Cabinet of Curiosities" This exhibition of photographic specimens explores the connections between science and art. It was inspired by the cabinets of the 17th Century, in which the owners assembled collections of objects that reflected the marvelous, unusual or extraordinary  -  Closes February 10.

The Editor’s Corner – Bill Staudenmaier

Parents are constantly on the move these days.  Their children never stand still.  There are the sports, scout meetings, summer camp, and so forth, activities upon activities.  Parents find themselves coming and going.  Grandparents on the other hand can relax; the grandchildren will go home, at some point.  But there is a special bond between grandparents and grandchildren that is more necessary and of the moment.  We enjoy our grandkids because there are special things we can plan to do for them and with them when they visit or we visit them.

Nicolas is seven years old.  He enjoys working on projects with his grandpa.  I’ve shown him and his sisters how to make things out of wood scraps in their Dad’s workshop.  But at my house the attraction is the electric train set that I’ve never really assembled, the way it should be put together, in a layout.  I started collecting the cars and engines when my daughters were young.  But collecting was all that I did; my daughters weren’t that interested in trains.  But my grandson Nicolas is interested.  He has the imagination and perseverance to run the trains and can create his very own railroad.  At first I was reluctant to let him handle these delicate HO gauge pieces.  But then I began to think, why not.  If they break I can glue them back together or one railcar becomes spare parts for the others.  Besides, what good are they sitting in a box unseen and forgotten.  So we build a small railroad with lots of imagination a few buildings and an engine or two and the boxcars, cattle cars, tank cars and cabooses all lined up on a siding waiting their turn for a run around the track with one of the engines.  But for me it isn’t the train it is watching Nicolas run it and enjoy it.

Nicolas two sisters, unlike my daughters, enjoy playing with the train.  Ashley admired the detail in the cars, while Lauren just likes to arrange and re-arrange the cars on the siding.  Each in turn runs the train. A set of wheels pops off and grandpa fixes the problem, or if an engine won’t run grandpa gets to try to discover what’s wrong.

The kids and I have built wooden toys.  Not works of art, just something simple that each child had a part in and enjoyed doing.  Nicolas really enjoyed building his small soapbox racer with me for a Cub Scout project according to his mother.  As I think back, I remember my Dad helping me build Cub Scout projects.  Those were special times that I still remember.  My wife is teaching the girls how to sew.  They’ve made some really nice clothes with grandma’s help.  

How do you capture these lives with a camera?  Images are deceptive they don’t tell the whole story.  Take the last time we were in Fort Collins.  I wanted my son-in-law to take a nicely posed photo of my wife and I and the three grandkids. The backdrop was my daughter’s flowers, wildflowers and huge Kansas sunflowers in their front yard.  So here’s the scene, grandma and grandpa are posed standing there patiently, with the children in front of them.  Ashley, the oldest, smiles nicely.  Nicolas has an exaggerated smile that looks like it is painted on.  Lauren, the middle child, doesn’t want her picture taken.  She is making faces.  My son-in-law gets several shots, none too good, but I’ll take what I can get.  He usually has them pose for a Christmas card photo; I can wait.

Reviewing the pictures later causes me to smile.  I’m really tempted to mount all the pictures, from the bad through all stages of almost pleasant.  That is life as it is, not perfect, but passable.     

What I’ve observed and learned from my grandchildren on past visits is that they are growing fast.  I need to take the time to play, slow down and listen and enjoy their time now.  I don’t want to remember only the photos we took, I want to remember the minutes we shared and the problems we solved together.  Therein is the treasure of these days that far surpass the images I’ve made as they patiently posed.  They will probably not remember all the details of what we’ve shared with them, but perhaps they’ll remember grandma and grandpa with the hint of a smile at some future time and place.



Images for Show and Tell
There is always a possibility at all of our meetings (if time permits) for member images to be shown and discussed.  Please see the information below regarding sizing of images.

All images should be sized for 1024 pixels on the longest dimension and saved as jpeg.  Images should be renamed to include the artist’s last name in the first characters of the title.  Check your image, if it looks blurry or pixilated (unintentionally), you may have started with a low resolution or highly cropped image.  In this case, you may need to increase the setting in the resolution box to improve the image; but be sure to retain 1024 on the longest side.  Submit JPG files on a flash drive tagged with your name.  Drives will be returned after the images have been loaded into the computer for projection.

Subjects for the Year-End 2012-2013 Photo Contest
Submittals for our Year-End-Contest are due at our May 2013 meeting.  Only images shot since May 2012 are eligible.  There are nine subjects to choose from.  You may select a maximum of six subjects with a maximum of two entries for each of the six subjects chosen.  A professional photographer will judge the contest, with the results to be presented and discussed at the June 2013 meetingA comprehensive list of the rules may be found in the June 2012 newsletter which is on the JCCC website.

2012-2013 Year-End-Contest Subjects

  • Architecture                                                        
  • Critters                                                                         
  • Square
  • Cloudscapes                                                          
  • Happiness Is                                                             
  • Saturated
  • Pattern Interrupted                                       
  • People                                                                            
  • Vintage  


Please patronize the following area businesses when you need photographic supplies or camera repairs.
Overland Photo Supply, Inc.    
8700 Metcalf,      Overland Park, KS  66212                               
(913) 648-5950,         FAX (913) 648-5966,         
e-mail – sales[at]overlandphoto.com,    
Hours: M-F 10-7,  Sat 10-5

Crick Camera Shop      
7715 State Line Rd.    Kansas City, MO  64114   
(816) 444-3390,      
e-mail - crickcamera[at]sbcglobal.net     
Established in 1946

The Aperture, newsletter of the Johnson County Camera Club, is published monthly.  Meetings are held the second Monday of each month, unless otherwise announced, at the Asbury United Methodist Church.  Short articles written by club members, or selected from other sources of possible interest to club members, may be sent to the editor for inclusion in the newsletter.  Membership dues of $25.00 for one year are to be paid during the month of September, which is the beginning of the club year.  Anyone who joins the club after March 1st. will not be required to pay dues and will not be eligible to participate in the year end competition.


For additional information or questions on the Johnson County Camera Club, activities, meetings, and membership contact the following members:

                                      
President  -  Steve Wall   913.782.6339   seeque2[at]gmail.com
Vice-President  - Erin Schuerman  913.322.3959   schuermanerin[at]gmail.com
Treasurer  -  Michael Stone   913.469.5724    mstoneopks[at]kc.rr.com        
Newsletter Editor  -  Bill Staudenmaier    913.381.0264    wstaude[at]sbcglobal.net  
Program Committee Chair  -  Erin Schuerman   
Program Committee Members  -  Steve Wall, Brian Schoenfish, Carol Barlau, Ernie Lowden, Carol Henderson, Bruce Hogle

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